- Leading remote team of SREs enabling developers across Venmo engineering with focus on observability, incident response, and configuration management.- Prioritization of projects, roadmaps, setting goals, and mentoring - Collaborating across Venmo engineering teams and PayPal business units setting best practices with distributed monitoring, setting SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alerting, tracing, logging

Managing a team of infrastructure engineers promoting growth and development at all levels. This includes performance review process; mentorship of junior team members and interns; resolving conflicts of both technical and personal nature.Maintaining ongoing communications with both engineering and non-technical teams to provide architecture planning and resources to assure prioritized projects are automated, secure, and properly monitored. Securing the infrastructure, focus on protecting both internal employees and customer facing systems, utilizing tools such as Rapid7 InsightIDR/InsightVM, Akamai Web Application Firewall, Windows domain policies, single-sign on authentication of third-party application, and multi-factor authentication.Infrastructure security representative on the cross-functional security task force

DevOps security lead on the cross-functional security task forceSuccessfully controlled SOC2 type I audit. This included writing InfoSec and related policies; securing the gaping security holes in the current cloud environments; balancing risk and reward of architectural designs, providing training to development on process and benefits of blameless incident post-mortems.Daily interactions with developers, technical leads, and management to produce a highly functional development team by providing feedback and advice on architectural designs, efficiencies, automation opportunities, and risk assessments.Brought visibility to the entire Ruby/Rails stack life cycle through monitoring and notifications preventing several bugs from ever making it into productionArchitectural redesign of stack pipeline utilizing AWS services and terraform providing infrastructure as code for configuration management and consistency.Maintain relationships with vendors negotiating rates, contacts for support, proof of concepts, ensuring Notarize receives the highest level of benefits from each vendor available.

Infrastructure team member responsible for all aspects of the infrastructure from the hardware up through the application layer across four separate locations and Amazon Web Services for corporate; development (QA/Perf/Stage/Prod); and wireless. Systems are primarily Linux RHEL 5/6 virtualized in VMware and AWS; CDN; monitoring; configuration management; performance tuning. This includes a wide range of technologies and applications from Akamai, Cisco, Extreme, Palo Alto, HP, Dell, Citrix, VMWare, Amazon, EMC, and Ruckus.Working knowledge: AWS (ELB; RDS; EC2; VPN Endpoints; Security Groups); Akamai (CDN/WAF); VMware Enterprise; Puppet; Nagios; git/github; puppet; LogicMonitor; StackDriver; Pingdom; Jira/ConfluenceSuccessful scoping and support of annual PCI audits.Participation in weekly oncall rotation

Operating Systems Support: Solaris FreeBSD Linux (RHEL, Gentoo, CentOS, SuSE) Windows 2003Storage platforms: Dell EqualLogic EMC Celerra BlueArc TitanNetworking: Cisco ISO (switches and routers) Juniper firewallsResponsible Network Services: IMAP/POP server (dovecot) Mail encrypted proxy for external access (perdition) SMTP relays (exim) Spam Prevention (Greylisting; ClamAV; SpamAssassin; etc.) DNS servers (bind) DHCP services (isc-dhcpd) File and print services (Samba) Database (mysql) RADIUS Authentication (freeradius) Cisco BGP, VLAN, HSRP, Spanning-tree PuppetCommercial Applications: Symantec Netbackup Server RSA SecurID Authentication Manager Iron Mountain Connected Backup PGP Universal server Cisco Unified Communications Manager (VOIP)Languages: Perl PHP Bash

UNIX and Windows consultant based in the New England region working on client sites including RSA Security; Living.com; Egenera; Boston Museum of Science; and Gnome Pharmaceuticals. This included the support of ClearCase; Solaris; Windows NT; Linux; SAMBA; autofs; NIS; NFS; and Vertias Volume Management

Part of Stratus Computer was acquired by Ascend. See Stratus for job details.

Windows NT and UNIX (Solaris; HP-UX) system administrator responsible for the Windows NT domain; SMS, WINS database; backup services based on Backup Exec; file and print services; Desktop install and configurations; Quality Assurance test lab; installation of Solaris and HP-UX QA test systems; Documentation; DNS; SAMBA; NIS; and NFS services

Ascend Communications was acquired by Lucent. See Stratus Computer for job details.